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Waste Management and Attitudes Towards Cleanliness in Medieval Central Europe 10.1515/jlecol-2017-0005 Journal of Landscape Ecology (2017) WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS CLEANLINESS IN MEDIEVAL CENTRAL EUROPE 1 2 3 FILIP HAVLÍČEK , ADÉLA POKORNÁ , JAKUB ZÁLEŠÁK 1Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, e-mail: [email protected] 2Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague, Czechia 3Department of Materials Physics, Montanuniversität Leoben, Leoben, Austria Received: 10th March 2017, Accepted: 9th June 2017 MOTTO: The sewer is the conscience of the city. Victor Hugo ABSTRACT The paper deals with the relationships between people and waste in the Middle Ages, primarily in urban environments in Central Europe. At the center of interest are the attitudes of the inhabitants of medieval cities towards cleanliness and a description of different waste management practices. This paper also describes an experiment using ashes to launder clothing as one possible use of a particular waste material. Keywords: Middle Ages, waste, waste management, recycling, environment, hygiene, cleanliness, ashes, clothes laundering INTRODUCTION Today, when people think of the past, they often attribute a sense of backwardness to our ancestors. This opinion seems to be stronger the deeper we delve into human history — and pre-history. This view clearly stems from the linear view of human progress over time; history has gradually led from primitivism to today’s “perfect state of progress.” But we are often surprised when we discover historical facts that reveal how advanced—technologically, artistically, or otherwise — our predecessors were. And the further back we go in time, the greater our surprise. Similar prejudices prevail in how we imagine the sanitation and waste management practices of our predecessors. Another common belief is that societies that produced only organic waste did not have to deal with waste management because everything they threw away decomposed on its own. This stereotype, however, cannot really be applied to any actual society. It cannot be assumed that if only organic waste was produced, its presence did not need to be dealt with. The Middle Ages are generally thought of as the dark ages. Perhaps 266 aaaJournal of Landscape Ecology (2017) how medieval society viewed public space1 or the hegemony of the Catholic clergy who called for purity of spirit at the expense of bodily cleanliness2 (see further) contributed to this conception. Well-worn images of people dumping waste from their windows; narrow, muddy city streets; and ubiquitous dirt and disease are applied to the entire Middle Ages. The aim of this paper is to re-examine the above-described views of this period. We will focus on whether the relationship of medieval society to waste and public space was truly so hopeless, as well as examine how people managed waste. Based on case studies documented in historical, written sources as well as in material, archaeological ones, we will attempt to shed some new light on this issue in Europe. Considering the fact that there are no set, universal dates for the medieval period, as its duration differed from region to region, we must establish a suitable timeframe for our study. This study shall focus on the German High Middle Ages between 1050 and 1250, and the late Middle Ages between 1250 and 1500. At the same time, our geographical focus is mainly on waste management in Central Europe. This paper focuses in detail on the urban environment because it can provide a greater source of data about waste management (in the form of archaeological findings and written sources) than rural areas. Towns, with their confined nature, had a more urgent need to solve waste-related problems.3 DEFINING WASTE Every living organism produces waste. Human beings are no exception; in fact, they produce much more waste than other organisms. This fact stems from humans’ ability to adapt using artefacts, thanks to which they could acclimate to the variety of natural conditions found throughout the Earth. People produce an abundant variety of waste. On the one hand there is universal, ubiquitous bodily waste; on the other, human activities have resulted in waste specific to the place and time in which it was produced. This type of waste is an important source of information about the lives of ancient people that we can uncover with the help of archaeological research. We can obtain a wealth of information from waste: it can tell us about common everyday items, the technologies used to produce them, long-distance trade (when items of distant provenience are found), and social differences on the basis of the use of luxury items and common objects. Waste deposits are also an important source of information about food sources (thanks to animal bone and plant macro-residue finds), about the health of the population (e.g., parasite egg finds), or about the natural environment at the settlement and its vicinity. Considering the fact that towns have had to deal with waste since they first 1On the basis of written sources, Norbert Elias showed how understandings of public space, the shame associated with bodily functions, violence, and table manners changed in the transition from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era (Elias, 1969). 2 It must be added that Catholic clergy along with educated monks comprised the only educated class in medieval society. Innovations in monastery architecture made ingenious contributions to waste management in these buildings. 3The fact that the contemporary Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island is the largest manmade structure on Earth with an area of twenty square kilometers bears witness to the key function of waste in human society. 267 Havlíček F., Pokorná A., Zálešák J.: Waste management and attitudes towards cleanliness in Medieval Central Europeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa emerged,4 urban waste is a valuable source of information about the day-to-day lives of town dwellers. Dozens of archeobotanical studies that provide invaluable information have been conducted on medieval waste deposits in many European cities. Urban waste can often tell us much about agricultural practices in a town’s hinterlands because the composition of weeds found therein is a good reflection of the conditions under which grain was grown (weeds were often sorted from grain before milling; therefore, these weeds found their way into the town). On the basis of macro-residue found in medieval pits in Olomouc, a detailed reconstruction of synanthropic vegetation growing directly in the town has been conducted (Opravil, 1994). In the following text, we shall, however, examine waste from a slightly different perspective. Breaking with tradition, we want to use it to study the waste itself. We are interested in how our ancestors managed waste and what were there attitudes towards it, and more generally, towards the cleanliness of their environment. Due to waste’s fluid nature, we shall first attempt to define and categorize waste. Several categories of waste can be defined (Graph 1); in the Middle Ages waste was made up of kitchen waste, human and animal excrement (this category includes two sub-categories based on how this material was deposited), construction waste, and waste created when producing artefacts. Fig. 1: Graph 1 (Author: Filip Havlíček) 4For example, the Neolithic settlement of Çatal Hüyük in modern Turkey, where the study of waste resulted in great knowledge about the relationships between local inhabitants. 268 aaaJournal of Landscape Ecology (2017) Ore mining waste also existed in the form of gangue; mixed waste can also be found. We can also include a category of other waste because some materials defy identification.5 According to Guillerme, in our list we must also include waste water, which was produced when organic materials such as hides, wool, hemp, and flax were soaked before further processing (Guillerme, 1988). However, as we are interested in the relationships people had with their waste in the past, mechanical classification based on origin will not suffice. All waste needs to be evaluated in context, not as an independent entity. The attitude we have towards a particular type of waste plays a fundamental role in our perception of it. Thus, the term waste contains many meanings and how it is perceived depends on its context.6 Just as a resource may transform into waste, waste, too, may become a resource. It all depends on how we view the given material. Instead of a one-way view of the waste process in which resources transform into waste, we work with a model of recycling or reutilization, which were typical practices before the Industrial Revolution. Cognitively speaking, waste is located somewhere outside of the human order. Waste de facto ceases to exist only once it has fully and definitively decomposed. In practice waste management has a fully causal relationship with the size of the population7 of a given agglomeration. A suitable place for observing these environmental problems is the city––that is, a place where a large amount of people coexist in a relatively small space. THE MEDIEVAL TOWN AND DEPOSITING WASTE Medieval cities 8 were compact, layered, and closed off by walls; market squares functioned as the economic and social heart of the city. This definition points to some of the basic attributes of cities. The more a town began to grow, the greater its need for waste management. Unlike rural areas, where the contents of dung heaps and waste pits could be used as fertilizer, towns were dependent upon the regular removal of waste, which was ideally performed by municipal offices (Jenner, 1991). Towns, with their limited surface area, were forced to constantly grow upward. In a city such as Prague, with its well-preserved historical urban core, we can easily demonstrate the tendency for cities to develop upward. The original ground floors of medieval houses are today usually cellars. In some cases, it was best to artificially raise the land or in places level 5If a rare artefact is found amongst waste, it could have gotten there by chance, and therefore it would not be appropriate to consider such waste as mixed waste.
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